There are a lot of good and compelling reasons for organizations to opt for virtualization. A few of them are as follows:
- Server consolidation: Virtualization significantly reduces capital expenditures (CAPEX), hardware, power, cooling costs, and so on. If virtualization is not used, you will need a lot of servers to serve different workloads, which in turn consumes a lot of electricity, hardware cost, cooling, space, and so on. So, instead of running multiple workloads/applications on a individual physical server, virtualization helps to consolidate all the workloads to multiple virtual machines running on fewer hardware/servers.
- Testing and development: Virtualization allows you to easily build a test environment and ensure it's operating on an isolated network rapidly. Severe crashes that required hours of reinstallation will take a few seconds by simply copying a virtual image to build a new server.
- Reduce datacenter footprint: Server consolidation with virtualization will reduce the overall footprint of the entire data center. Virtualization guarantees fewer servers, a smaller number of racks, networking components, and cabling needs, all of which translates into less data center floor space required.
- Faster server provisioning: Virtualization helps faster server provisioning and deployment. This can be done with the help of cloning, and templates or existing virtual machines can be used to get the server up and running instantaneously.
- Reduce power and cooling expenditure: Consolidating workloads or physical servers to virtual machines ensures fewer physical servers, which reduces power and cooling costs in the data center.
Apart from the preceding features—such as maximum uptime, easy workload migration, self-healing in nature, scalability, and self-service management—disaster recovery features motivate organizations to adopt virtualization.
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